Begging for advice on how to make nesting instincts stop/subside in pregnant friend

[moriah]

Seriously, she is supposed to be resting but we can't get her to stay down more than an hour before she is up trying to rearrange things and such. And if she won't take it easy at home, we're going to have to make her take it easy at the hospital. Woke me up at 3 AM (when I have Bipolar I, am already in a mixed episode, dysphoric hypomania, can barely sleep as it is, and my doctor is already talking about possibly having to admit ME if I can't rest enough to let my brain chemicals settle down) to rearrange furniture.

She's having preterm labor symptoms already, her last baby came early too, and she's not due until September 1. She has a laptop with just about every video and ebook there is, puzzle books, etc, but I can't even get her to sit when she insists on supervising all of us doing the heavy lifting.

Any advice besides shaking her and saying that either she lays down or we go to the hospital so she CAN rest?

[ret5hd]

1. You wouldn't believe how i misread your thread title:

Replace "instincts" with "insects".

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Heh. You posted while I was searching for the :scared: smiley.

[moriah]

8. Didn't think about that misread, but looks like you weren't the only one...

That would be far more disturbing, for sure.....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I swear I thought this said "nesting insects."

[Nac Mac Feegle]

4. On a "practical" note:

Suggestion:

Dig out some of BSDM gear???

[moriah]

7. Her husband giggled, but alas....

.... no fuzzy cuffs.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Is her doctor aware of what's going on with her?

If not, he should be.

[moriah]

6. Yes, he is, and given it's a high risk pregnancy she is getting seen weekly.

It's more suggestions on non-medical things we can do to reduce the whole "I must make every inch of the house perfect" thing.

Maybe some really addictive game? I would have said Farmville years ago, because you pretty much are building your own little property and arranging it to your liking, but she got over that one before her second was born.

I *am* worried, like you seemed to be by the suggestion (other than just making sure docs were actively engaged) that the super-intense nesting indicates that birth is imminent even with rest. He was measuring over 5 lbs on the ultrasound done Wednesday, but that's also when they had her on monitoring equipment and determined what she thought were Braxton-Hicks were real, though irregular, contractions. But her family generally has gigantic babies (if this goes to term he's likely to be 10bs) , we're more worried about lung development. Every day he stays in the oven is one more day to grow.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. It sounds as though she doesn't really comprehend what her actions could cause.

I'm wondering if she's like this all the time, or is it just a pregnancy thing?

Perhaps a psychiatric evaluation? Just my thought!